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>It has been many years since Google has launched an innovative new product.

Stadia launched in 2019.

>>josu+(OP)
Stadia wasn't really that innovative, how many times has cloud/streaming gaming been done before? I can think of at least 3.

Also, it's already dead.

>>josu+(OP)
I suppose successful new product? It’s already closed.

>>silisi+H
Yeah, OnLive did it back in 2003!

>>silisi+H
Which three? Did they actually work with reasonable input latency?

>>josu+(OP)
OnLive was 2009, PS Now was 2014, and Geforce Now launched in 2015.

Stadia might have been well executed from a technical standpoint but AAA game streaming wasn't exactly a new and innovative idea in 2019.

>>mertd+g1
I thought of OnLive, Shadow, and Geforce Now.

The only one of those I'd used was Geforce Now, and found it very similar to Stadia wrt latency. Stadia had a much nicer interface, though.

>>silisi+w2
PlayStation Now already existed for years as well.

>>josu+(OP)
And it's dead.

>>snuxol+95
Which they got through their acquisition of Gaikai (considered a competitor of OnLive).

>>mertd+g1
The discussion was about innovative products. An already explored idea, but executed properly, only counts as innovative if Apple does it. And even then, it only ran for a couple years, so even if we want to give points for taking an idea and making it work, they don’t pass there either.

>>Sebgue+e1
Wikipedia says the company was founded in 2009. I remember trying it in 2010 too.

>>josu+(OP)
> went offline permanently on January 18, 2023

Lol.

>>silisi+H
Stadia worked much better than the competition. It was the first time that cloud gaming had no tradeoffs. Definitely a lot of innovation behind the curtains.

>>alto22+4m1
Ugh, the google smartbox pulled '2003' from somewhere. You're right, it was 2009.